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Height and Weight
Third graders explore their height and weight. They measure the heights and weights of their peers. Students record their data using an Excel spreadsheet. They create a graph to compare the data and analyze it for a correlation between...
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Breathe In, Breathe Out
Students study the respiratory system, the lungs and air. In this respiratory instructional activity students describe technologies that engineers have found that improve the health of the respiratory system.
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Character Traits - Who are We?
Sixth graders examine character traits. In this character education lesson, 6th graders set goals to strengthen particular personal character traits. Students watch their instructor model the character trait journaling strategy prior to...
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Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
Students examine the potential impact of climate change to agriculture, coastal areas, forests, water, and human health. They hypothesize what might happen to a sugar maple forest and hold a debate about global warming.
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Nutrition
Young scholars determine which foods help keep our bodies healthy. They identify the six food groups and classify different food items into the correct categories of the food pyramid. They evaluate for one week the foods that they eat...
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Let's Get Physical
Explore the benefits of physical activity and how it will affect your students' health. Students track their physical activities for one week and then compare their results. Collaboration with a math teacher woould be useful as it would...
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Survival Experts
Students take on the role of survival experts as they research and produce brochures or guides to educate others about what to do in the event of a natural disaster.
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Humor: Features, Functions & Subjects
Both informative and open-ended, this presentation provides students with the features and benefits of various types of humor. The middle slides allow teachers or professors to elaborate on talking points such as the educational and...
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Workout Exercises
Teach your class the three types of workouts: endurance, strength, and power. Concurrently, this focuses on the four parts of a workout: goal, warm-up, workout, and cool down. Two great examples are provided.
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A Healthy Retirement?
Do men and women experience heart disease the same way? High school and college-level biologists examine a case study about a woman, Nancy, who is experiencing intermittent health issues; looking at her diet, exercise, and lifestyle...
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Good Food Explorers
Students use different food items in order to practice the mathematical concept of shape recognition. At the same time the teacher explains how crops are a source of physical health. They use all five senses to describe each food item...
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Dear Expert
High schoolers identify sexual decision-making issues. In small groups, they answers letters written to them as the expert. Groups discuss the most appropriate way to respond to the scenario given to them and formulate an answer to the...
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Happy/Sad Puppets
Help young children identify their feelings and learn appropriate ways for expressing them. This lesson will help them understand that happy and sad are two different feelings, learn to distinguish and express different feelings, and...
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Stream Quality Assessment
Students investigate many of the factors that affect water quality. They take measurements and water samples at a local stream and evaluate the health of their community's watershed. They write a report detailing their findings.
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Mapping Out the Story
Discuss the reading comprehension strategy of summarization with your elementary schoolers! They read a chapter from their social studies textbook, Regions Near and Far, and create a map, or word web, for the chapter. They identify...
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What Are Friends For?
Students develop an awareness of the behaviors signaling that a friend may be in trouble with alcohol or drugs of abuse. They practice ways to encourage a friend to seek out adult help by viewing a video, role-playing situations, writing...
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The Five Food Groups
In this five food groups activity, students look over a chart containing the five food groups and the seven days of week and color the group they eat each day.
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Earthquake! The Human Impact
Pupils explore the impact of natural disasters on communities. In this character education lesson, students examine poetry regarding an earthquake. Pupils discuss how to rebuild communities in the wake of natural disasters.
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Sports Survey
In this sports survey instructional activity, students respond to 16 open-ended and multiple choice questions regarding sports and advertising.
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Ad Hangover?
In this advertising and marketing worksheet, students read an article regarding alcohol marketing and then respond to 8 short answer questions.
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Viruses/Infectious Diseases: What's Really Bugging You?
Middle school life science or health classes listen to an audio, visit websites, read different articles, and participate in a class-wide simulation about the spread of viruses. The lesson doesn't get into the mechanics of how viruses...
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Life Choices
By examining two differing perspectives on the topic of abortion, upper graders will be able to build an opinion of their own. A teacher-led lecture outlines key points in the debate for or against abortion including, the role of...
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Mercury - Mercury is Rising
Hold a discussion in your class about the increase in mercury being found in fish that are caught commercially as food for humans. Given a worksheet, learners then calculate how much fish a person can safely eat each month to remain...
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What's New in Contraception and Reproductive Health?
Students observe life science by completing a class activity. In this sexual health lesson, students identify the newest contraceptive devices and discuss the improvements being made to STD and pregnancy prevention. Students collaborate...
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